If it can happen in Maine, it can happen anywhere, and it probably is
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School social worker secretly began gender transition for a 13-year-old girl
A Damariscotta mom demanded the resignation of several public school officials at a school board meeting Wednesday following her discovery that a school social worker had begun secretly transitioning her 13-year-old daughter’s gender.
In an emotionally charged address to the school board, Amber Lavigne said a Central Lincoln County School System (CLCSS) social worker at Great Salt Bay Community School in Damariscotta provided a chest binder to her daughter — a gender transitioning device the employee encouraged the young girl to keep secret from her parents.
Lavigne said she’d never met the social worker — Samuel Roy — and had no idea school employees were secretly working to put her daughter on the path to gender transition. Other officials in the school also participated in the young girl’s social transition, using masculine pronouns to address her.
Chest binders are medical devices used to flatten the appearance of breasts in females who are uncomfortable with the appearance of their chest. The devices can cause back pain, skin irritation, infections, and exacerbate underlying health conditions even when worn properly.
In adults, the devices typically require proper fitting and regular breaks. Advocates for sex-change surgeries as a treatment for gender dysphoria see chest benders as a stepping stone to eventual double mastectomies, a surgery that removes healthy breast tissue.
Lavigne said she was aware that her daughter was seeing a social worker in the school system, but that her daughter had been reassigned to a new social worker in October. She was never told about Roy, the new social worker, and Roy never contacted her. She said the chest binder was provided less than two weeks after her daughter first met Roy.
Although school administrators initially expressed alarm when Lavigne confronted them about what had happened, she later learned that no school system employee, including Roy, will lose their job over the plan to secretly gender transition a 13-year-old student.
She said her daughter turned 13 a month before the social worker started the clandestine plan.
The school board’s response to the revelation — a story that’s being completely ignored by what can laughingly be referred to as Maine’s “major media”* — is hardly reassuring, because it refuses to address the actual issues, and instead denounces “discord and division caused by rumors and allegations”: As always, it’s never about the facts when the left defends its latest outrage, it’s the response from conservative critics.
The Board is aware that rumors and allegations have been published and republished on various social media platforms relating to this issue. While it is unfortunate that some individuals have sought to use this issue to try and divide our community, as a Board, we are committed not only to following Maine law but also honoring our school's core values, and focusing on treating each other with dignity and respect. The Board and administrators remain committed to working in partnership with parents, staff, and local law enforcement to ensure that all students and staff continue to have access to a safe educational and working environment.
*The only reporting, so far, comes from The Maine Wire, which explains its role in public discourse this way:
The Maine Wire is a news and opinion service dedicated to providing information and perspective on the issues important to Maine people. For conservatives and by conservatives, the Maine Wire provides an alternative to mainstream press in Maine that has become dominated by left-wing politics.
Founded in 2011 as a project of Maine Policy Institute, it has proved to be an invaluable resource in reporting on stories that would otherwise be ignored by the Maine media, providing a much-needed critical eye to the actions of Maine government, and providing a go-to location for free market thought leadership.
Every state should have such an investigative weapon.
